Bernie Sanders outpaces every candidate--including Trump--in donations from active-duty troops

[left-of-center2012]

Of all the people running for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 election campaign is receiving the most donations from active military service members. According to Seth Harp at Rolling Stone magazine, even Donald Trump does not have the level of support that Sanders does.

Culling through research done by the Center for Responsive Politics, Harp reports that Sanders tops the list with $185,625 in active-duty U.S. military donations. This is more than twice the amount the next top Democratic candidate has received (Pete Buttigieg at $80,250), but most surprisingly, it is considerably more than the $113,012 pulled in by the Trump reelection campaign.

The interesting thing about these numbers is that Trump was “preferred” by active military members according to a survey done by the Military Times in 2016. It also goes to show that while Trump’s isolationist campaign platform was appealing to military personnel, Trump’s inability to keep only his most racist campaign promises while jettisoning the rest has clearly hurt him among the military community.

Sanders has been a very consistent, anti-war foreign policy advocate for many years, and that combined with Donald Trump’s reckless foreign policy moves over the past three years has probably led many relatively conservative military types to move away from the Republican Party’s current standard bearer. A chicken hawk billionaire doesn’t change his stripes.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915527/-Bernie-Sanders-outpaces-every-candidate-including-Trump-in-donations-from-active-duty-troops?utm_campaign=trending

[lapucelle]

1. The data is from "people employed by the military" not "active-duty troops". N/T

[left-of-center2012]

3. Where'd you get that?

"According to Seth Harp at Rolling Stone magazine ..."

Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 to Sen. Sanders’ 2020 campaign.

The U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs all separately appear on Sanders’ list, comprising 5 of his top 20.

The largest service branch, the U.S. Army, comes in at number 11, with $65,395 in total donations.

[lapucelle]

4. From the exact same source that the Rolling Stone writer links to for candidates not named BS.

This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2020 cycle. The money came from the organizations' PACs; their individual members, employees or owners; and those individuals' immediate families. At the federal level, the organizations themselves did not donate, as they are prohibited by law from doing so. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/contributors?id=N00000528

[left-of-center2012]

5. I did not see that in the RS article n/t

[lapucelle]

6. That's because the writer didn't provide any data to support his claim. N/T

[left-of-center2012]

7. Then we don't know the author is wrong.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

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Thanks for the thread left of center.

[David__77]

8. I like it.

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